Who Do You Think You Are?

[LeMartinPecheur]

I understand it was hereditary I'm ashamed to say I'd quite forgotten that the Mary Rose museum was in also Portsmouth, even though I've passed through the town several times. I well remember being riveted to - was it the television? when the ship was salvaged.

Portsmouth a mere town?? ff, you must be a Saints supporter!

[Pabmusic]

Quite some pedigree there. Well you all know about my ancestors. Quite a blood thirsty lot!

Yes, I know about your forebears, BBM. There is a slight problem, though, because the Battle of Bosworth is perilously close to the point (say 1430-ish) at which everyone of 'long-standing-British descent' (no known recent influx of outsiders) is equally a descendant of everyone in those times who actually has descendants, (In other words, anyone whose 'line' hasn't died out.) Therefore, it's very likely that I am also descended from the Plantagenets - though I'll willingly concede that you may have more lines of descent than me! :)

This is all mathematical, not genetic. It's the same calculation that has all Western Europeans descended from Charlemagne.

Glad to see that you're OK. :)

[Beef Oven!]

You could always start such a thread ....

Good idea

[Richard Tarleton]

Duly bumped. I knew it was there somewhere. I see Pabs actually started it, way back.

[Pabmusic]

Duly bumped. I knew it was there somewhere. I see Pabs actually started it, way back.

Did I?

[Richard Tarleton]

Did I?

Guilty as charged

[Pabmusic]

Guilty as charged

Clearly a prescient move. :)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Looking at the OP, it seems (from the quotation from an "earlier" Post) that this Thread "grew" out of a previous discussion, which may have been deemed Off Topic on the "parent" Thread, so a Host (not me - I wasn't one in 2014) has diverted relevant comments here. Pabs' OP looks like it was chosen as the most suitable for this new Thread to begin; so, he is credited as the Thread starter, even though he might not have started it.

[Pabmusic]

....Pabs' OP looks like it was chosen as the most suitable for this new Thread to begin; so, he is credited as the Thread starter, even though he might not have started it.

Story of my life - I don't look back, oblivious of the havoc in my wake...

[vinteuil]

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... a sub-thread in the same area - I don't know whether a Host could amalgamate -

... brassbandmaestro - you are special because you are you. You are not special because you have royal ancestors. We all have royal ancestors -

https://www.popsci.com/descended-from-royalty

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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... a sub-thread in the same area - I don't know whether a Host could amalgamate -

Obliged!

[vinteuil]

Nope - it takes me to a site called "Popular Science", not the Thread containing the similar sub-Thread about Bbm's ancestry.

... sorry, I'm being too stupid (or you're being too clever). Not the thread within the thread, but just this - shd lead you to Who Lived in a Castle -

... brassbandmaestro - you are special because you are you. You are not special because you have royal ancestors. We all have royal ancestors -

https://www.popsci.com/descended-from-royalty

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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Yes - apologies, I assumed the link to the Science site in the post you quoted, rather than the "View Post" >> symbol.

All sorted now.